[loveridden1999]

what if it all worked out in my favour

[mv11]

[artandchocolate]

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

[nannaholst-deactivated20260412]

[bru-who]

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

[73w36w-deactivated20160906]

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[luthienne]

updated link

[how2forgive]

ode to emptiness by sally wen mao

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Howl”

[skirtmag]

[petaltexturedskies]

Last night I couldn't sleep and couldn't sleep just because I wanted so badly to spill over to someone. I feel that I'm cut off from all humankind. I feel like putting my head on your shoulder and weeping from sheer homesickness.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath wr. c. June 1951 featured in Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

[deviika]

Fernando Pessoa // Anne Sexton

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[1938rebecca]

leila chatti, postcard from gone

[dk-thrive]

How long before you yielded to your inevitable shame? And how long before you realized (did you realize?) shame was a blade you turned against yourself and once you knew it you could use it—

— Leila Chatti, from "Questions Directed Toward the Idea of Mary" in The Georgia Review in Fall 2022.